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Christian Coleman
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100-meter world champion Christian Coleman from the USA takes legal action against his suspension - and moves to the international sports court Cas.
This was confirmed by his agent Emanuel Hudson of the BBC and described the judgment of the disciplinary tribunal of the World Athletics Federation (WA) as "unfortunate".
In addition, Coleman had "nothing to say until the matter can be brought to the appropriate court".
Coleman was suspended for two years on Tuesday for violating the anti-doping rules and will therefore most likely miss the Tokyo Olympics next year.
The independent integrity commission AIU regards it as proven that the American committed three reporting violations within twelve months, as it is said.
Coleman had already been suspended in June.
Athletes must indicate in advance where they can be reached for any doping tests.
Two missed tests are dated January 16 and December 9, 2019, and Coleman also committed a reporting violation on April 26, 2019.
"The consequences for an athlete who has committed three 'missed tests' are draconian," said the verdict: "But instead of learning from [...] his experience, one can change the athlete's attitude to his obligations in at best as completely careless, at worst as inconsiderate. "
Coleman argues that the inspectors are unwilling to reach him.
In December 2019, when he missed the third test, he made Christmas shopping near his house.
"If you had called me, I would have been ready for a test immediately," he wrote on Twitter at the time.
The inspectors, in turn, stated that they had waited an hour outside Coleman's house and knocked and rang the bell every ten minutes.
Before the Cas, it should also be about the question of how meticulously athletes have to adhere to their information about the whereabouts.
However, Coleman has enough experience with the problem of missed tests.
In the run-up to the 2019 World Cup in Doha, investigations against him for three "missed tests" were ultimately suspended.
At that time, a breach of the reporting obligation had to be retrospectively re-dated and therefore did not fall within the period of twelve months.
According to the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), any combination of three failures to report - either missing a test or not submitting documents on time - is considered a violation within a period of twelve months.
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